The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


perienced on the 21st over the whole of
the island of Jersey. The tremor pro
ceeded from west to east. No damage
was done.
The National Academy of Sciences, in
session at Washington, elected three new
members on the 2lst. The scientists thus
honored are Prof. Bowditch, of Harvard
Prof. Mendenhall, of Terre Haute, Ind,
and Prof. George h. Cook, of Brunswick,
Ga.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rescinded an
order issued some time ago, directing a
suspension of survey of land in the Turtle
Mountain reservation in Dakota, and in a
new order directs continuance of the
survey.
MAJOR F. w. BENTON, of the Ninth
cavalry, was recently sentenced by a
court-martial to be dismissed from the SER
vice for drunkenness. The President has
committed the sentence to one years sus-
pension from rank and duty on half-pay.
JUSTICE WOODS, of the United States
Supreme Court, is seriously ill at Kansas
City, Mo.
The Apache Indians are to be removed
from Fort Marion, Fla, to Mount Vernon,
Ala.
A HURRICANE swept over portions of
Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas on the
22i, A large number of people are re-
ported killed, many injured, and vast
amount of property destroyed.
STARTLING developments of fraud are
made in the legislative investigation Of
Michigan assessment insurance COM
panies.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
expected toleave Washington on the 25th
for a short trip to the South, going to
Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis, etc.
ARCHBISHOP CoRRIGAN has warned
the Ca'hoH; Herald to cease its defense Of
DR., McGlynn and criticisms unfavorable
to those who removed him.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared dividend of twenty-five per
cent. in favor of creditors of the First
National B INK of Pine Bluff, Ark
FRANK NJ. SCOTT the book-keeper of
Webster & Co., New York who embezzled
SOL, S45, received sentence of six years
on the 221.
THE total number Of trade dollars re-
deemed up to the 22l was 5,243,000, which
number will be incread 100000 by recent
importation at San Francisco from China.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, was united in mar
riage on the 22d to Miss Louise W hitfield,
eldest daughter of Mrs Fanny D. Whit
tild, at the residence of the BRIDES mother,
in New York, They left for a European
tour on the steamship Fulda.
A GREAT flood was raging in the st.
Lawrence river on the 22d, and part Of
Montreal was inundated.
WOLF PINK, Polish pawnbroker, was
enticed from his place of business at Lead
City, Oak, on the 22d and while he was
out his place was robbed of $500 in
jewelry Five men have been arrested on
suspicion.
Ben RICHARDSON, who owns about half
of Harlem, and is several times a MILL on
aire, is the man who was recently swindled
by the ''gold brick trick in New York
The gilded copper bars which he thought
were worth $4,000 are now at the assay
Office on exhibition.
A FREIGHT train going west on the
Grand Trunk railway went through the
bridge over Nash's creek, near Morris
burg, Ont, on the 22nd. The. engineer
and fireman were killed and brakeman
was badly injured, Thirteen loaded cars
were piled into the gorge and smashed to
atoms.
CHoRIsTER in the Military Academy
church at ST. Petersburg committed sui
eide on the 2lst by jumping from Win
dow Of his house. On being searched the
house was discovered to be Nihilist rea-
devious. A quantity of dynamite, arms
and revolutionary documents were. found.
SAMUEL d. CONNER, wealthy gentle
man, owner of considerable mining prop
erty in the West, principally in Colorado
and step-son Of General William Lilly,
of Carson County, Pa, committed suicide
in the Monument cemetery, Philadelphia,
on the 22d, by shooting himself through
the heart. He had been married the day
previous.
Two counterfeiters, Michael Hammer
and James Fox, have been captured at
Indianapolis.
| Tue overdue steamer Salerno arrived
at Queenstown on the 22d in tow. She
broke her propeller March 81 within
eight hundred miles of New York, for
which port she was bound, aud was COM
! PEELED to take the back track by adverse
winds.
WIN. b. MITCHELL, president of the Elk.
change Bank, of Detroit, Mich, has disap.
peared with all the funds Of the concern,
leaving an anxious lot of creditors and
depostors behind him
CHANG YEN HOOK, Chinese Minister ia
Washington, sailed from New York OF
the 23i for Havre, accompanied by foul
secretaries of legation.
THE recent cyclones that swe It portion,
of the Northwest were predicted in Prof
Irl b. Hicks astronom cal chart published
in 1884
AN attempt was mado on the 3 {,
assassinate George B. Kulp, n promin IN
lawyer of Willlasbarre, Pa by H. w. De
Witt, another lawyer. His aim was de
fective, and he failed in his attempt, anC
was lodged in Jail. Dewitt is thought t,
be insane.
E. T. III. SIMMONS, who was manager o
the Hotel del Monte, at Monterey, Cal.
until it was recently destroyed by fire
was arrested on the 231 on a charge O.
having set fire to the building.
JOIN METZ, South Bend QndO police
man, who shot a tramp few days sine
in fight with gang of them, was hell
by the coroner's jury on charge of man
LII,